Peep Show

Atlanta Braves: A 21-year relationship will come to
end after 2004. Guy Cutright of the Atlanta Journal
Constitution reports the Braves have announced they
are relocating their Double A franchise from
Greenville, South Carolina to Jackson, Mississippi,
the home of a new, $22 million stadium. Jackson lost
the Generals at the end of the 2000 season when they
moved to Round Rock, Texas and promptly set all kinds
of Double A attendance records. That Jackson
affiliation played in the Texas League, while this one
will remain in the Southern League. Any Braves star of
recent vintage is going to have Greenville on their
resumes. Chipper and Andruw Jones, Tom Glavine, Kevin
Millwood and Javy Lopez all spent time there on the
way up. John Smoltz was in the Tigers chain for Double
A, but has had three different rehab assignments in
Greenville, which is a convenient 150 miles from
Atlanta.

Los Angeles Dodgers: If you can only do one thing for
a team, make it a memorable thing. Cody Ross sure did.
His lone homer as a Detroit Tiger was a grand slam
last September 2 -- the first round tripper of his
major league career. In the ultimate good news/bad
news incident, he suffered a season-ending knee injury
in the very same game. All that's behind him now.
Yesterday, the 23-year-old outfielder was traded to
the Dodgers for relief pitcher Steve Coyler. Ross had
slugging averages of .508 and .515 the past two
seasons in the high minors and could provide some pop
for the run-starved Dodgers. A player-to-be-named will
also head Detroit's way. Tom Gage of the Detroit News
reports that Ross thought the news he had been traded
was an elaborate April Fool's Day joke. His family
thought the same when he called to tell them. It seems
the Ross family was big on practical jokes until
"until my dad almost gave my grandma a heart attack
with one," Ross told Gage.